Accor’s growth of new-era airport resorts

Between 2014 and 2024, Accor has elevated its variety of airport resorts throughout the Pacific area by 144% (with 22 airport resorts in 2024 vs 9 in 2014).

The opening of the Novotel & ibis Types Melbourne Airport follows different important Accor airport lodge developments throughout the Pacific area previously yr.

Australia’s first airport ‘resort’ launched final December following the $30 million funding by Airport Growth Group (ADG) within the upgrading and integration of the award-winning Novotel & Mercure Darwin Airport resorts. The reimagined resort property added a 61-metre swimming pool, new pool villas, extra meals and beverage shops, an built-in arrivals and welcome space, intensive Indigenous art work and murals and an Indigenous coaching academy.

In New Zealand, Accor just lately added a Pullman lodge to its present Novotel and ibis resorts at Auckland Airport. Te Arikinui Pullman Auckland Airport Resort is the primary five-star lodge to open within the Auckland Airport precinct and is simply 100m from the entrance entrance of the worldwide terminal.

Accor now operates 22 airport resorts throughout the Pacific – the most important airport lodge operator within the area.

Accor Pacific Chief Working Officer PM&E, Adrian Williams, stated the growth of the Group’s airport lodge community highlighted the evolution of airport precincts into main business and repair centres. “Airport resorts are now not essentially nearly transiting travellers; they’re the engines of complete new built-in multi-use developments which have advanced to supply a whole mixture of enterprise, retail, business and tourism actions,” stated Mr Williams.

“Airport precincts are remodeling into mini-cities in their very own proper with their very own demand drivers.

“Novotel and ibis Types Melbourne Airport will likely be a major instance of resorts fuelling this demand and offering significantly greater than only a place to sleep for an evening. Specifically, we count on the resorts to turn out to be extremely in style venues for conferences, occasions, incentives, and features, fuelled by the vary of leisure amenities throughout the space.

“The explanations to remain at an airport lodge are rising exponentially, significantly in Melbourne, the place the shortage of built-in transport choices to the terminals makes staying in a single day at certainly one of our resorts and enjoyable and making ready for a serious abroad journey top-of-the-line investments a traveller could make. Beginning a protracted worldwide journey stress-free is an enormous plus for wellbeing.”

From luxurious to financial system, Accor operates 19 worldwide manufacturers throughout Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and French Polynesia, equivalent to Sofitel, MGallery, Artwork Collection, Pullman, Swissôtel, Mövenpick, Grand Mercure, Peppers, The Sebel, Mantra, Handwritten Assortment, Novotel, TRIBE, Mercure, BreakFree, ibis, ibis Types and ibis finances, in addition to Ennismore’s SO/.  

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